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few things from Andrew Gentry. You're starting right tackle what
he's seeing in his preparation for this Texas Tech matchup.
Very excited about what this offensive line can do and uh, look,
it's gonna be a tough challenge this defensive front. They
spent a lot of money on this defensive front. This
is a good football team, but their defensive front has
been They've been buy and paid for. This was a
nice acquisition from the portal. They went portaling and they
bought big and Luckily for them, they have a fantastic
culture that the the front seven of this defense bought
into and they continue to impress, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: They limit.
Speaker 2: High scoring offenses from being prolific. They did it versus Utah.
Look at Utah's offense. Like Utah's offense been good this season.
They faced that tech defense and got stymied, got stymied
real quick that that second half got ugly.
Speaker 3: For the Utes.
Speaker 2: Anyway, definitely a formidable foam and this defensive front, no
doubt about it, is gonna be tough. So let's get
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start diving into Texas Tech film and what has been
your impression of this Red Raiders defensive front.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we started diving into them last Monday
or the bye week. I just treated it, you know,
like a normal week. And so we've been watching them
and they're a great team. Great up front. They got
some really really good edd rushers, especially some really great
interior de linemen, some really great linebackers as well. So
kind of as coach was just saying as he was
finishing up, I heard the end of what he was saying,
and just excited for the opportunity to play against the best.
You know, that's what you want to do, is play
against the best, and that's what we get, right that's
the chance that we get right here.
Speaker 5: And so what if an opportunity for us.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of respect for those guys on that
other side of the ball, So it's gonna be a
fun challenge for us, but definitely excited for the challenge ahead.
Speaker 2: Look, I love the fact that they delved into the
film since last Monday, they traded like a game week
and look, yeah they got some time off. They they
took off I want to shay on Thursday after So
they practiced Monday Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, and then I
think they practice on Thursday and then took off maybe midday.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they had a.
Speaker 2: Morning practice or if they took Thursday completely off, but
they may have done like a walk through before letting
the team take off for the week and on the
bye week, and I'm sure people visited their friends, their
family members, et cetera in other states, But they got
some practices in so and the most important thing, those
that have been deemed up a little bit injured, I
think they stayed, stayed back and got their bodies taken
care of. So that's an imperative. Andrew Gentry is a
guy that has navigated possible playoff implications before. What's your
mindset for a moment like this where it's two top
ten teams involved.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's the same mindset every week. And
I've said this, you know before, but you have to
view every game like it's a top ten game, every
game like it's a playoff implication game, right, And I
think that's been our key to success this year, right,
is that every opportunity, you know, for down on the
fourth quarter or whatever it is, we're fighting like it's
the most important game of the season, because at that
moment is the most important game of the season. And
so now you get a chance, right, We're both ranked,
and so obviously there's a lot at stake. I think,
you know, everybody realizes that there's a lot at stake.
But at the end of the day, it's just another
chance for us to go out there, to get better,
to improve, and to really just get excited for for
what's ahead.
Speaker 5: But I'm so excited for this week.
Speaker 4: I just really looking forward to this game, and you know,
trying not to look forward to to really what it means,
but just going out and trying to be want to know,
this week against Texas Tech B one to.
Speaker 2: Oh once again keeping the main thing, the main thing
being focused. Look, I can't I don't think I can
overemphasize the impact that I think guys like Braidon Brown
have been. Do you guys know Braydon Brown is ron
and I think you do for offensive lineman. He came
in as a tight end, converted to offensive tackle, played
many years at BYU as a starter, ended up in
the league, played a little bit there, and then back
injury cut his career short. But he's a a essentially
a human mental performance coach that has been pivotal I
think and keeping this team in the right frame of mind,
constantly reminding him of what's most important, which is, you know,
staying humble, staying hungry, you know, love and learning and
keep the main thing the main thing. Okay, I agree,
he's just putting in the right work at the right time,
at the right place.
Speaker 3: And continuing on that grind. So shout out to Brydon Brown.
Speaker 2: Now, how is Bear Bockmeyer and his demeanor in the
huddle right now? Is he comparable to any quarterbacks you
played with before?
Speaker 3: What's your style there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, he does remind me a little bit of J. J.
Speaker 4: McCarthy was fanned to see JJ out back yesterday and
playing well.
Speaker 5: But he's got a lot of the similar traits.
Speaker 4: JJ was just an ultimate competitor, went out there and
was always calm and collected. You know, there's a story
going around of his first start this season where they
were down and he was struggling throughout the first three
quarters and just said, hey, you know, is there any
place you'd rather be? And that was just JJ's character
and Bears the same way. Right, it doesn't matter for
down ten at Arizona was six minutes left, or you know,
down big at Iowa State, whatever it is. Bear's just
always consistently really confident. He commands the huddle well, I've
never seen him flinch, and that's a huge amount of
I have a huge amount of respect for him. He's
a true freshman to be able to do what he's doing.
But yeah, I mean, honestly, you're playing with a guy
like JJ McCarthy. Now seeing Barr do that, I do
see a lot of those similar a lot of those
similarities between those two guys and how they manage the huddle,
how they command respect in the huddle, and then just
the way they go out and compete as well.
Speaker 3: Is is this an answer given.
Speaker 2: That, you would say, you know what, he's doing it
because he truly believes it, or is he just doing
it due to circumstance? Does that make sense? Like is
he doing it just for circumstances? Like yeah, you know,
you know, you know McCarthy, who's a very good quarterback
in college, right, highly drafted, highly talented, You go down
the I mean, obviously he's good. He can only pick
from the Michigan quarterbacks that he played with, and there's
so there's few and far between to pick from.
Speaker 3: But to see you buying or selling that type of rhetoric.
Speaker 6: I'm buying it. Here's why.
Speaker 7: He Also when I did my interview, being remember reminded
of people. I interviewed Andrew Gentry before the Colorado game.
Speaker 6: What did he say? He compared l J.
Speaker 7: Bartin to Blake forgot his last name, and then the
other running back that was a backup and the other
ones that he's been around. He didn't necessarily need to
do that, and one of the running backs he mentioned
he got injured and then even playing that season. So
I don't think Andrew's doing this, you know, out of obligation.
I truly believe he feels Yeah, they're up there with
the best, if not better, you know than that. Look
at what they're doing, and I think because of what
they're doing and backing it up, that is why they're
getting that comparison.
Speaker 6: If Bear wasn't performing.
Speaker 7: At this high level, I don't think he would do that,
and his decision making is proven for that. If you
were to ask him this question they were six and two,
maybe he doesn't give that answer.
Speaker 6: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: But because he's playing at a high level, and he
played at a high level and saw those Michigan people
and those guys are now going on to the league
and are playing now, I think that's why they're getting
that that comp and I think it is valid. I
don't think it's that so I'm not selling it. I'm
buying it from Andrews. And he doesn't seem like a
tie a guy to give compliments out for free or
you know, just give you a nice participation pad on
the back. I think he's really being sincere.
Speaker 2: A couple of other things from Andrew Gentry. You're going
up against David Bailey, he leads the nation at sacks.
Do you ever think about matchups like this in terms
of your potential future as a pro going up against
a guy like this.
Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, right, the
main focus is just winning this week. I mean, it's
a great opportunity. He's a phenomenal player. Watch a lot
of film on him, and you know, there's a reason
that he's the number one in the nation in sacks,
and there's a reason he's going to be a high
draft pick. And I'm just excited for the challenge and
the opportunity. At the end of the day, you know,
I'm more focused on helping my team get to one
to know than what my future holds, and so whatever
I need to do as a player in order to
help my team get to want to know, I'm going
to make sure I do that this week and help
my team do the best of my ability.
Speaker 2: Once again, limiting those distractions, focusing on himself and little
just internal eye what is most important for him. And
you do need to scout out your opponent. Don't get
it twisted like you need to know what their tendencies are.
You need to know what their techniques that they employ are.
That is an imperative, Okay, I believe that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3: You have to respect your opponent.
Speaker 2: Never fear your opponent, and you need to try your
best within the practice schedule and maybe even afterwards to
make sure you're right physically mentally and understand what that
opponent does best. But you don't want to be so
ineborated by it that on the scouting that you overthink,
like I'll be honest, like I over scouted a tendency
of UCLA in two thousand and seven. Leading up to
we had played them already, right, and then we played
them again in the bowl game, and they went.
Speaker 3: Into a heavy set.
Speaker 2: It's like twelve maybe twenty two personnel with a single
receiver to my side. And in the film consistently they
showed post corner in those scenarios. So I'm sitting here
like post corner, here we come. And I had prepped
my hips. I turned way too early.
Speaker 3: I'm like waiting on it.
Speaker 2: Bro that was a post, and luckily I did a
full freaking baseball turn, tracked it down and got a
PBu because the ball floated just a little bit. It
wasn't on a rope, and it wasn't out in front
of the wide.
Speaker 3: Receiver that he could run under it.
Speaker 2: He kind of he held there for a second and
then elevated to try to catch it and I got
a PBu I overscouted my opponent. I overscouted the personnel.
So you don't want to be so ineberated by like
I was in that moment that you miss out.
Speaker 3: That should have been a pick for me.
Speaker 2: It should have been a pick if I would have
just played it like I would in practice. Instead, I
turned to the corner and then had the baseball back
to the post.
Speaker 3: You don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: You want to turn to the post and then baseball
back to the corner like you do in practice. And
I cheated, cheat it a little bit. Just read what
you have in front of you and react. Number five.
You are no stranger to big matchups like this. How
do you manage all the hooplaw around it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think, going back to what I said earlier, the
main focus always has to be just being one to
know this week, you know, not focusing on what comes
after November is really just right now. Hey, this game,
we have Texas Tech. They're a phenomenal team. We're a
really good team. So what are we going to do
this week to go? Want to know it's gonna be
a fun environment, and so I think you have to
take that approach every single week. Right, we get through
this week and then we got another three really good
games coming up after that, So the focus every week
is again just go want to know, do your best,
practice hard, play hard, and let the chips fall where
they may.
Speaker 2: Final thing from Andrew Gentry Andrew, what were the errors
of focus for the offensive liner of the bye week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a big focus was making sure that
we're rested and recovered ready for this week. You know,
it's a long season and playing six games in a
row like we did from our last bye week, guys
are a little banged up naturally, no major injuries, which
is a huge bussing.
Speaker 5: For our offensive line.
Speaker 4: Making sure guys were healthy and recovered, but then also
making sure that we were mentally prepped coming into this week.
It's a great advantage to have a bye week because
you get to really study out the nitty gritty details
of your opponent and you get those full two weeks
to know your opponent better. So we were really watching
their defense, watching their players. Again, like I've mentioned before,
they got great playmakers, So just trying to get the
advantages that we can to go out and play our
best as an offensive line, because we're gonna need our
best game this year, and we're excited to go out
and show the world what we can do.
Speaker 3: Diego.
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some BYU basketball. The victory, the win over the Villanova Wildcats.
What a way to start off the season, the year
two of Ky you baby leading us to glory and
hopefully okay quota this year for many is an elite
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at least amongst the bau fans.
Speaker 3: What's quota for JT this year?
Speaker 2: And what did he make of this BYU men's basketball
team and the first tip off of the season. I
know exhibitions, they were one on one and that we
got to see him, but what did he make of
this win over the Villanova Wildcats.
Speaker 3: We'll break it down coming up next.
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Speaker 9: And so you know, I've shared about my struggles with
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Speaker 3: So JG. Let's break down this victory. What stood out
to you? What did you love?
Speaker 2: It's the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly
with Jonathan Tavanowi the most beautiful Brazilian on Cougar Sports.
Speaker 8: Well, let's go with the good, right. I think the
good I would say is Keba Katam. Okay, let's go
with Keva. The way that he played that sequence band off,
the pullback dunk and the hen of the block and
that my guy does a salute. Uh my goodness, gracious,
you know that that was incredible. The reason why I
have him as a good is because Keba last year
nothing more of a complementary player in terms of rebounding
and blocking and then making sure that his uh you
know that his teammates are you know, just just helping
and he's more of a role player, right, Now I'm
not saying that you know, Byu is gonna throw the
ball to him and say, hey, go get us a bucket.
But what I am saying is that b Yu will
very very much count on him on having a level
of consistency of Hey, I need to rebound, I need
to block, but I also need to make sure that
I'm scoring. Uh, I'm you know, bot back guns, I'm
being aggressive. All of these things are part of Keba
being able to get everything done. And so to me,
the good of the game yesterday is gonna go to Keba.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, that's the good of the game. JT run
up the three man weaver here with the people. What
were something that you feel like they need to work on? Obviously,
I feel like people are nitpicking JT. To me, to
be able to have a close battle like that, to
not shoot well from the field, to miss a couple
of free throws. Look, it's the first game that got
it done. You saw aj take over down the stretch,
you saw Rob do that. But there's still some fans nitpicking.
From your standpoint, what's something coming out of this game
that they need to work on?
Speaker 6: Because I do agree with some people.
Speaker 7: If you blow a lead like that in the second
half in conference play, you're gonna get beat by fifteen.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, and so I would say that the bad,
you know, from the good, the bad, the ugly, and
the beautiful. I will probably say that the bad is
exactly what you said, is the fact that the lead
was lost. You know, there was about a five minute
span over there that it was Robert right, it was Baker,
it was I think Kadeem and Mahilo, and it wasn't
call somebody else I don't remember now, and that's when
they lost the lead. And and so I you know,
a little bit concerning now again, people say, well, the
bench needs to do this. I don't think it's on
the bench guys, right, I think there are a few
things that need to happen. For instance, I was a
little bit if how can I put it this way,
I didn't understand why Kevin Young took out Baker when
he did, because Baker came in and knocked down a three,
was doing great, but he pulled him out right after that,
and I'm like, my gosh, you're shoot he's you know,
just knocked down a shooter and a shot and just
let him keep having momentum. Kevin Young didn't do that obviously,
and so but then Mahilo missed quite a bit of
open shots, you know what I mean, And to me,
Mahilo is gonna be the the shooter for this year,
maybe even Tyler. I think once Mihilo missed two or
three shots, Kevin Young decided to goal with Tyler to
see what he could get from him. Obviously yesterday didn't
get a ton. But you know, my concern, honestly is
not the bench because BYU has probably one of the
best big three in the country, and so you know,
if the good is Keva, the bad, I will probably say,
is the fact that Richie and AJ and Robert Wright
cannot be on the bench at the same time ever,
and you know through the one of them cannot be
on the cord for longer than a TV timeout. That's
probably my bad run.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 7: When I was looking at it, I was looking like,
are all three of them on the benches at all?
Speaker 6: That's not that's not that's not doable.
Speaker 7: Like I think they exposed a little bit seeing some
Dawson Baker or rob right, like when you're that good
offense and maybe the defense is one of your weaknesses,
not all of them, and shots aren't falling. I feel
like teams can attack that. But Ken, we just go
back to Kaba. He was great defensively, like that was
the good But and we discussed this yesterday when you
because you do a great job every time. Guys, if
you want to give a plug for JT after every
home game, most likely after he does his space this thing,
please join on his Twitter. It's a great time to
join him. Eric Mika did it yesterday and they had
a phenomenal job. It's a good time to join. But
the way Caba was sealing, they teach that in the pros.
That's a professional thing to do. He did everything. I
felt like that you needed to down the stretch to
win the game, and that's the type of player you need, JT.
I feel like to get to the elite to win
a Final four, and I just got to give And
I posted on my Twitter saluted the cap to Chris
Burgess and that staff, and Chris liked the tweet that
I put out too, because the development of this man
has been phenomenal. Like I know, Aj is gonna get
the hype Richie Rob but Keba Kada. A big part
of their success is going to be built around number thirteen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, I.
Speaker 10: Will say this, you know, if the good was Keba,
if the bad was you know, just the rotation, I'll
probably go with the ugly being.
Speaker 8: Probably the shooting. Okay, Byu was atrocious from shooting. Yesterday,
Buyu shot thirty nine percent from from from the field,
twenty nine percent from the three point line, sixty six
percent out of the free throw line. You and I
talked about this yesterday. Weren Aj going two for seven
from the charity stripe.
Speaker 6: That can't happen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that man could have had The man could have
had twenty five points on a college debut, and my goodness, gracious,
right now, he had twenty one. Uyu won the game.
That's totally fine. But I think when you look at
the numbers and the way that you know, Byu left
a lot of points on the floor by missing shots,
there has to be an issue. And you know what,
I'm gonna do a bonus bonus ugly as well. Seventeen
offensive rebounds giving up that's about That's about ten offensive
rebounds too much, right, I think that if you give
up you know, five between five and ten offensive rebounds already,
think that's a lot. Five is the you know, anything
more than five is atrocious. Seventeen offensive rebounds, it is
just it is just not okay, it is just not
It is just not a good a good situation. And
so to me, those are the two uglies you know that.
Speaker 11: That I saw in the game, and so.
Speaker 8: Those things just cannot happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you, those two things definitely cannot happen.
But again, first win in the books, do exactly what
they need two to go down in Villanova. And I
think you and I we've talked about it all off
season seeing what ag did. They're like BYU and people
have been raving and waiting for a player like Agent
to take over the ball game. He did that, seeing
him down the strips like, Okay, he's gonna be able
to close out games. Richie will knock down threes. He'll
come together, the chemistry will come along. But the broadcast
jteam I have never heard of BYU broadcast more raved
about go back to Alama Bowl football and on sorts
of topics and still you know, basketball season and football season.
But they would they were raving about prime Colorado. And
this was the first time I've heard of broadcast since
covering BYU and being a student there, or I heard
pretty much all of it, Taylor towards BYU, Asia debots,
and Kevin.
Speaker 8: Young Well, and I will say this, you know, if
the good was Keba, the bad was the player rotation,
the ugly was the shooting percentages and defensive rebounds. The
beautiful cannot be anything other than Aj Debonsa. Let's make
sure that Ron, you and I have talked about this extensively.
Speaker 9: We have yet to see the hype that this man
is going to bring.
Speaker 8: And one of my favorite parts of the broadcaster is
he's all about BYU, right, and so now are their
business motives for him to being about by U with
the collectives and and il and you know all of
the things that the reasons why he chose by U.
And that's totally fine, right, That's okay. Now AJ being
a big BYU guy and and becoming one of us
right again there. To me, the most masterful thing that
that Tom Holmo and Brian Santiago have done is maintaining
that high level of commitment to the things that matter
most with the church standards and so on. But I
think it's very interesting. Aj is the type of player
that by U has never ever had ever and for
AJ to be performing at the level that he is
as a freshman, I mean Ron, that was his first
collegiate game, right now, I completely understand that people say, well,
but they're now getting paid in this And then I'm like,
it's fine even if this is a pro league, because
like to be realistic, college basketball. Now it is a
professional league, he still is the first time that he's playing.
Speaker 9: At that level.
Speaker 8: Right and again, Villanova, you're not playing against you know,
Booboo State University, Central College, you know, of of the Woods,
I mean Villanova in the last ten fifteen years. You know,
you could arguably say that they are what maybe a
blue blood because of how you know, how consistent they
had they had been under Jay Wright and such and
so AJ is, you know, he is. There is an
incredible hype around him, and nonetheless, he is better than
advertised and he keeps getting better and he keeps delivering.
And what an amazing thing it is to see him play.
Cougar Nations should be, should be should feel lucky that
we all get to watch him play up and close
live and as often as we will do by him
being a b y U.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Aj again, I said nothing against Jimmer, And the
landscape has changed right in college basketball. While we talked
about Jimmer had to play all four years, you know,
it's a different era. And now if you do everything
in a year that adds up to it with the hype,
with how much you're paying you one season does equivalate
to that because if you don't do it, then you
get ripped. So I think all of that's fair, that's
on the table, and I think he will what I
saw yesterday, I'm like, dude, if you scored twenty one
points and they all were missing bunnies, for crying out loud,
but if AJ miss four bunnies, which you mean to
be add that's another eight points.
Speaker 6: So there you go.
Speaker 7: You give Hi about almost thirty and he missed five
free throws like Bro could almost drop forty his first game.
Speaker 8: If you go back and Ron, there is something, there
is something that you alluded as soon as as soon
as we started a conversation, and I want to touch
on that, and I want to be the one that
touches that, you know, just because obviously you have to
try to be as neutral as you can, and I
don't care what people say about me. Here's the thing
run the amount of people criticizing Robert Right or saying, hey,
he needs to do this, he needs to do that,
the ball needs to move. There were multiple times on
where Robert initiated something fasketball to aj ORed Ritchie and
those guys extra pass to the corner for a wide
open Kadeem, a wide open canard, you know, and it
was just a beautiful ball movement right a Baker. The
three point shot that he made, he was wide open
and defeats that Mahilo. We have a lot of extra
passes as well, and so BYU will get there right
BYU will very much get to where they need to be.
The other thing that I think it's it's unfair is
to say, well, Robert Right needs to be a fast
first point guard. Well, then sounds like you're asking Robert
Right to become a different player than he is. Sounds
like you're asking Robert different persons because that's not his game. Okay,
he is a scoring, attacking point guard and that's okay,
right and so and and you talk about missing bunnies,
Robbert Ride missed a whole lot of them. However, big however,
here when he came time to deliver and when he
came time to execute and get the job done. At
the end of the game, A J and Robert Wright
were doing the snake screen attack, where right after the
screen that Keva sat and he was a fantastic screen
Robert would get in front of the defender and and
he would almost guide him right, keep him on his back.
And so to me, it was a great game. It
was a very great first game. Probably the only negative
things I can say about this game is I would
say Kevin Young rotations. I did not like it, but
I understand where he's coming from, right, I don't. I
don't like it. I didn't like it, but I definitely
understand his motives and understand why he did it. Shooting
was atrocious and so was offensive rebounding, giving up. So
all in augh byus want to know, coming home to
play a game on Saturday, that should be a very
exciting game and uh, you know, eager to see what
this team is going to do next.
Speaker 6: I agree with you.
Speaker 7: Let's finish up on a couple of things as we
have Jonathan Tavnar a ore esp and the fan college
basketball analyst. You can also catch JT when helps out
with BOU TV basketball pre half and postgame show. They
take care of all of that down there in the
great building of BYU broadcast.
Speaker 6: JT.
Speaker 7: You mentioned a game on Saturday, Holy Cross's when I
want to turn my attention to. What do you want
to see on Saturday from this team? Obviously holy Cross
not the formidable opponent that Villanova is, but it's still
a game, still a vision on opponent that you need
to pay attention to.
Speaker 6: What do they need to correct?
Speaker 7: What do you what would you like to see maybe
from some of the other guys outside of aj Rob
and Richard, even from them going into this Saturday.
Speaker 8: I would like to.
Speaker 12: See, in all honesty, a few metrics that I would
like to see.
Speaker 11: Is less than five offensive rebounds giving up, right, I
think that.
Speaker 12: Would be a very that would be something.
Speaker 11: And then one thing that I would love to continue
to see.
Speaker 12: Is BUYU only had four turnovers, which is incredible, Right,
They took care of the ball, They were very.
Speaker 11: Good, They were very efficient doing that. And so I
would say that what I would like.
Speaker 12: To see is improve overall shooting. Right, I would say
shoot above fifty percent from the field, above forty percent
from three, shoot above seventy you know, seventy five percent
from the free throw line.
Speaker 8: I mean, listen, Ron, We're not asking much, right I.
Speaker 12: You know, it's as my father in law says, you know,
these are these are free you know, free shots for
crying out a loud, right, And so it's to me
it's something that they have to do.
Speaker 8: Those would be the metric star. And obviously it's a win.
Speaker 12: You don't want to have a Boise State situation where
you lose you know to Boo Boo State College, you know,
community college, and you don't want to have that situation.
And uh. And then but the matrics I would say is,
you know, shooting above fifty percent from the field, above
forty percent from three, above seventy five percent from the
free throw line, no more than five offensive rebounds, and
you know, keep turningovers under ten. And I think if
BYU does that, you know, you start seeing the the
developing and uh, and you know, the improvement from a
team that is going to be the talk not the
talk to the town, uh, mister Ron Weaver the third,
but the talk of the country. And AJ is an
international superstar at this point, we have to we have
to call a spade a spade, and my gosh, you
know he is an asa spades. What a phenomenal player,
the way he moves Robert right, you know, we all
better get a custom that we're only going to see
him in provo also for just one year. And uh,
you know, lots of lots of lots of great things
happening for YU basketball right now and BYU football coming
up with a massive game in Lublock, and uh, you know,
just a great time to be a Cougar fan.
Speaker 7: Definitely a great time to be a Cougar fans. Saturday
is going to be great for all fans. You got
BYU kicking off at ten am and Mountain eleven am
Central for those that will be in Lubbock.
Speaker 6: Number eight, BYU football taking on number.
Speaker 7: Eight number excuse me, number nine Texas Tech, number eight
bou basketball in action on Saturday. All happened on November eighth.
Just realize that too. Tip off for the Holy Cross
game will be at seven pm Mountain to excuse me,
Mountain Standard time. And now that game is going to
be tipped off on ESPN Plus. You can catch it
there BYU according to the matchup predictor, ninety eight point
eight favorite to win this game.
Speaker 6: According to esp Analytics, I believe what JT says.
Speaker 7: If you limited turnovers, you shoot above this amount of
your limit offensive rebounds. Definitely bo He's coming out not
only with the dub, but a twenty point victory be
a good opportunity to bounce back.
Speaker 6: JT.
Speaker 7: Before I let you go, what's the best way we
here at ESPN, the fan and the listeners can support you.
What you're doing, how you do it?
Speaker 12: Hey, today is election day, and so all of different
places election day. Yeah, so get out and vote. Have
your voice being heard. You know.
Speaker 11: Ever since I became an American citizen.
Speaker 8: Voting is probably one of the greatest.
Speaker 11: Blessings that I get to enjoy.
Speaker 1: And I did.
Speaker 8: I went now, I voted.
Speaker 12: I had a couple of options, a couple of different
elections that I needed to give my input, and I did.
And you know, I hope that my candidates win. But
if they don't, you respect the democratic process. So get
out and vote, guys, and execute your civic duty.
Speaker 7: Hey, you heard JT. Look, at the end of the day,
one thing I will say is that, Hey, we all
have to go vote. If you want to change something,
if you want to have your opinion and voice heard,
then the way to do that is to go vote.
Don't not vote regardless fine parties on both sides, scenes
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so please go vote. Like JT said, JT, we'll catch
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